The Work That is Worth It

Pastor Jennifer Botzet shares from Jeremiah 29:1-7 and considers what God is encouraging his people to do: to labor in the fullness of their present lives even though it is a temporary space for them as a people. Likewise as a young church being planted we all have been called back here to this laboring […]

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The Community of the Cross

The community at the cross of Jesus in John 19:25-27 was made up of his Mother Mary, his aunt, Mary the mother of Clopas, and John the beloved disciple. These disciples stayed with Jesus faithfully until the end. They had shared history, shared joys, shared pain, shared hope with Jesus. Also, the last thing that […]

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Our King Was On That Cross

Pastor Bobby gives us a look at the key characters surrounding Jesus’ death in John 19, and an opportunity for us to name and confess our own brokenness so that Christ may be our king once again today.

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https://www.facebook.com/thechurchwehopefor/videos/126396156163035/ In our church familia, we intentionally elevate the voices of our Asian Pacific American familia as central and their stories as authoritative. During this service, storytelling is an act of worship and an act of liberation. Listen to our siblings: Kenneth Chang, John Chan, Camille Hernandez, and Mary Ellen Azada share about the joys, […]

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The Good Samaritan: Reimagined

Pastor Kevin Doi reimagines the story of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10:25 and makes it unfamiliar for us again. Both the victim and the protagonist in the story are Asian American. The victim is an Asian American elderly woman, perhaps, who is beaten, ignored, left for dead, with no one to intervene, as often […]

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